$10m-$19.9m

Five corporates have chipped in for MIT's 3D printing technology developer Inkbit, which hopes to use AI and computer vision to produce complex components at scale.

MIT-founded machine learning software development engine company Neural Magic picked up support from Comcast Ventures for its approach to executing ML models on commodity CPUs.

Building on the work of University of Sydney researchers, Kira Biotech has raised $13.6m from investors including IP Group to progress antibodies for autoimmune diseases.

Chinese Academy of Sciences' Cash Capital put up a share of the funds for oncological drug developer OnQuality Pharmaceuticals' first funding round.

Stanford-StartX Fund portfolio company Sensely collected funding from a consortium led by insurance firm Aflac to haul its lifetime total to $26.5m.

Sense Biodetection has raised $15.8m in a series A round co-led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Earlybird to produce a diagnostic test for infectious diseases.

Stanford spin-out Ayasdi receives $10.25m in series A financing for launch from Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE.

Germany-based media company Bertelsmann and the university venturing fund it recently backed have joined venture firms Kapor Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Greylock Partners backing the on-line university network.

US-based internet university company Coursera nets the funds from venture firms, as it signs up top US universities like Princeton and Stanford offering courses for free.